Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway
Caroline Ugelstad, curator
The Man in the Background, 2006
20’00”
DV-Cam and 8mm transferred to DVD
Courtesy the artist
The video is built around a sequence super 8-images, representing Michael Josselson, the director of the organization Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) (1950-1967), on holiday with his wife Diana in 1958. What the images does not show, however, is that Michael Josselson was a CIA-agent and the CCF a secretly financed CIA-organisation.
Lene Berg was educated a film director at a Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. In 2008, she was the Norwegian fellow of the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and participated in the Sydney Biennale. She has taught and had workshops at several art schools in Scandinavia, such as the Art academies in Stockholm and Oslo. Characteristic for her work is the mix of medias and fictions within the same project, and the use of so-called real persons and events as points of departure in her projects.